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by Edward J. Ruppelt

The Report on
Unidentified Flying Objects, written by Captain
Edward Ruppelt in 1956, was the first serious,
unbiased account written about UFOs by anyone
connected with the official government investigations
of UFO phenomena. Ruppelt, who coined the
term "unidentified
flying objects" and headed Project Blue
Book from 1951 to 1953, includes his personal
investigations and findings in his extensive
research on UFOs. He discusses both well-publicized
UFO sightings and lesser-known accounts, as well
as the inner workings of Air Force UFO research.
This edition is the original 1956 edition; in
1960 Ruppelt released a second edition which
seemed to weaken his original views that some
UFO reports could not be explained, and reinforce
the Air Force's position that there was nothing
mysterious about UFOs.

EDWARD J. RUPPELT
(1923-1960) was the head of Project Blue Book during
the Korean War, from 1951-1953. He served at the
Air Technical Intelligence Center, where he took
over Project Grudge, a formal investigation by
the U.S. military with the goal of debunking extraterrestrial
and UFO activity. Under Ruppelt's supervision,
the project, later named Blue Book, experienced
its most fruitful years, when investigations were
properly conducted without judgment or disdain.
Many UFO researchers hail him as a pioneer of UFO
research and hero in the fight to earn respectability
for the field.